Suzanne Heintz and her plastic love in Life Once Removed

You can find art all over town — not just on gallery walls. In this series, we’ll be looking at some of the local artists who serve up their work in coffeehouses and other non-gallery businesses around town. Suzanne Heintz, a local local photographer and self-proclaimed spinster, recently saw her…

MM Serra on whether Johnny Minotaur is art or obscene teen-exploitation

MM Serra is struggling to find a New York City venue bold enough to exhibit Charles Henri Ford’s 1971 surrealist memoir film, Johnny Minotaur. Nobody wants to bite. This experimental classic reflects on teen sexuality with explicit homoerotic imagery. Unnamed institutions refuse to show it because curators believe the performers look like minors and that the film violates basic standards of decency, she says.

Cornell alumnae fill Pirate’s walls for Ithaca

A smart-looking show on display at Pirate combines pieces by three artists who first met in 2006 at Cornell University, which is why the show is called Ithaca, the name of the upstate New York town where the institution is located. It was organized by one of the artists, Pirate…

Come to #Artopia14 this Saturday

Every year, Westword gathers our favorite painters, sculptors, performers, musicians and more from around Denver for Artopia, a celebration of all that’s good in Denver’s art world. This year, the celebration is taking over five venues along Broadway. See also: Artopia 2013…

Get Immortalized this weekend at Brushstrokes

Brushstrokes Studio-Gallery is filling up with a lot of love this month. Larger-than-life puppies and hand-painted Valentine’s Day gifts will be taking over the space located in the heart of South Broadway’s Antique Row. The lovely lineup starts with tonight’s opening reception for mural and portrait artist Patrick McGregor. While…

RedLine’s Transit of Venus pays tribute to the Front Range Women

During his tenure at RedLine, former director P.J. D’Amico brought an interest in social activism to the programming there. A little over a year ago, he and then-deputy director (and now director) Louise Martorano decided that the 2014 schedule would be given over to exploring the role of women in…

Aaron Petitjohn keeps Denver beard with his graphic design

Portland and Austin may claim to be the weirdest cities in the country, but Denver has its own brand of weird. Giving the “Keep Portland Weird” slogan a twist, Aaron Petitjohn captures the Denver attitude with his “Keep Denver Beard” T-shirts and other Colorado-centric designs. See also: Adam Sikorski’s Coloradical…

Monkey Town 4 will bring a highbrow slice of Brooklyn to RiNo

We might live in a town where dining out with an eye-feast of visual media means heading to the latest sing-along screening at the Alamo Drafthouse, but in a few weeks, that will all change — at least for a while. Former Denverite Montgomery Knott just announced the arrival here…

Alphabet Denver finds letters in the most unusual places

We live in a world of letters — letters in books and on billboards and TV screens, and appearing clickety-clackety as our fingertips conjure them out of keyboards. But author Kitty Migaki found characters lurking in more unusual places — among the angles and curves and cornices of buildings –…

Alex and Ani design Bronco bangle in time for Super Bowl XLVIII

Wondering how to accessorize your Denver Broncos jersey for that big Super Bowl party on Sunday? Look no further than Rhode Island-based jewelers Alex and Ani, who have crafted a bracelet featuring the Denver Broncos logo — and with the NFL’s permission, which means no cranky cease-and-desist letters that the…